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Re: SI Article on USCw Woes

I was going to post a link to this exact article. I'm glad I looked down the page first. As for the article itself, it makes me all warm inside. Kiffen is a jerk and USC is always overrated. To see them sharing this kind of season is awesome.

Re: SI Article on USCw Woes

People bought into all the glitz and glamour on offense and forgot how important defense and depth are. With their recruiting, even Lane Kiffin will field good teams moving forward. It just won't be this year.

"Each play has a history and a life of its own. How is that play going to be remembered? If you're focusing on that play and what you have to do that single play, usually you'll do pretty good on it." - Coach Nick Saban

People bought into all the glitz and glamour on offense and forgot how important defense and depth are. With their recruiting, even Lane Kiffin will field good teams moving forward. It just won't be this year.

They're going to be worse in 2 years when the scholarship restrictions really set in.

"This is not the end. This is the beginning." - Nick Saban, at the 2009 NC celebration at B-D.

Re: SI Article on USCw Woes

When we were playing Tennessee when he was there I saw a sideline shot of Monte talking to the ref about something. It just suggested to me he was really running the show.

Some coordinators do that. We just don't see CKS or CDN doing it. Depends on if the head coach is fine with the assistants talking to the refs or not.

Think Matt Barkley regets coming back for this year? Where would he have gone in the draft?

He'll still be the first QB taken.

"I don't know what class is but I can tell when one has it, you can tell from a mile away"
-- Coach Bryant

"We always talk about playing 60 minutes but this is a 60-10 game: the 60 minutes of the game and the 10 minutes in the locker room after the game that you remember for the rest of your life."
-- Nick Saban day after beating Clemson

Re: SI Article on USCw Woes

Barkley is a great player and that is the most dynamic passing game in the country. Both he and his top two wide receivers are high first round draft picks.

Outside of that, it's going to be really ugly next season. Scholarship sanctions will sink further in, and without Barkley the passing game won't keep them afloat at a reasonable pace. I think you'll find that all of a sudden, 8-4/9-3 quickly backslides into 5-7/6-6. Going to be a lot of upset Trojan fans the next couple of years before they can start beginning to expect a meaningful rebound.

All of that sportswriter infatuation with them at the start of the year was really just (1) evidence that none of those guys do anything but watch the ball while it's in the air, and (2) the Pac-12 isn't the outright cupcake most expected.